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At West Palm Beach’s Morrison Field in 1944, a young Army Air Force pilot named Adolph Komer fired up the engines of a B-24 Liberator bomber named Little Princess. His destination: Nazi-occupied ...
Here is the story of the B-24, in all of its World War II glory – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a bomber that truly lived up to its name as it helped “liberate” Europe from the Nazis ...
Discover the might of the B-24 Liberator, a .50-caliber machine gunship heavy bomber that changed the course of aerial warfare. Known for its massive firepower and long-range capabilities, this ...
Deceptively large on the outside, the inside of the B-24 Liberator is relatively small but efficiently designed for a 10-man fighting crew that carried bombs in its underbelly.
Nevertheless, it was strong enough to carry two of the B-17's bomb bays mounted in-line. The trade-off was in altitude, as the B-24 topped out at 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) with a full load of bombs.
A morale problem for B-24 Liberator crews early in World War II was caused by unexplained in-flight explosions with no survivors. To the best of my knowledge, my crew was the first to survive the ...
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced heavy bomber of the war. Now, a group of Veterans has gotten together to restore one of the last remaining ones in existence.
This Cybertruck’s B-24 Liberator wrap honors a WWII bomber pilot The cybertruck's wrap is a tribute to a B-24 Liberator known as Silver Babe which the owner's grandfather flew in WWII. Patty Nieberg ...
In this video, we compare two iconic USAF WW2 heavy bombers: the Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. We investigate why the B-24 was found to be 80% more effective ...
Ed Zaluski of Cicero talks about fighting in World War II as a flight engineer/top turret gunner in a B-24 Liberator. He entered the service when he was 18 and completed 30 missions in the Pacific.
All but ignored is the B-24 Liberator, arguably the mightiest Allied bomber of the war.In 1940, Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, which designed the B-24, envisioned building one per month.
It's a B-24 Liberator, owned by the Collings Foundation, and it arrives at the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance around noon on Monday. Here's the kicker: on it will be Louis Zamperini's son ...